The webinar series--Training Health Workers for Ebola:Protection, Detection, and Response—launched on October 21 with 138 participants and continues on October 23, 28, and 30. All webinars air at 10:00 am EDT. The webinars are free to join and we welcome participation from diverse audiences, including ministries of health, health workers, community leaders, program implementers (in-country and international), policy-makers, and others.

The Ebola Resource Center provides materials for creating country-level mobile training efforts and building connections between groups involved in the response to Ebola. These will be tied to each webinar session. The Ebola Resource Center offers SMS text and interactive voice response messages, training content, guidance documents, and other information. We welcome submissions of relevant resources that can support frontline health workers who are responding to Ebola.

ABOUT EBOLA APP

West-African based tech company Code Innovation, with the help of a
volunteer team from Chile, Lebanon, Kenya, Senegal and the Gambia,
launched a free “About Ebola” mobile application to support public health outreach and communication efforts to educate the public about Ebola viral disease. The content for the app was adapted from information on the websites of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization. It was translated into African languages including Wolof, Jola and Swahili by a team of volunteers. This app is a complement to traditional and wider-reaching public health information efforts to educate the general public and health care responders (including home caregivers) about the virus and how to prevent its transmission.

The app is now published on Android and Apple platforms in five African languages: Jola, Sierra Leonian Krio, Liberian English, Swahili and Wolof. In addition, the app is in English and French. Once it is downloaded, the African language of choice can be selected from the Main Menu.

The Lancet Ebola Resource CentRE

All related content from The Lancet family of journals is now freely accessible on their online Ebola Resource Centre - http://ebola.thelancet.com/.